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(contracted; show full)n compounds of [[d-block]] metals with hydrocarbons, and invigorated the development of the flourishing study of organometallic chemistry. In 1973 [[Ernst Otto Fischer|Fischer]] of the [[Technische Universität München]] and [[Geoffrey Wilkinson|Wilkinson]] of [[Imperial College London]] shared a Nobel Prize for their work on metallocenes and other aspects of organometallic chemistry.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1973/press.html |title= Press Release: The 
[[Nobel Prize]] in Chemistry 1973 |year= 1973 |publisher= The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences}}</ref>

==Structure and bonding==
The carbon-carbon bond distances are 1.40 Å within the five membered rings, and the Fe-C bond distances are 2.04 Å.  Although [[X-ray crystallography]] (in the monoclinic space group) points to the Cp rings being in a staggered conformation, it has been shown through gas phase electron diffraction<ref>Haaland, A.; Nilsson, J. E. "The Determination of Barriers to Internal Rotat(contracted; show full)
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[[Category:Organoiron compounds]]
[[Category:Metallocenes]]
[[Category:Antiknock agents]]
[[Category:Sandwich compounds]]
[[Category:Cyclopentadienyl complexes]]